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J. W. ALBRIGHT.

SWEAT PAD PASTENER.

Patented May 3, 188'7.

UN TED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. ALBRIGHT, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J OHN L.SGHOLL, OF SAME PLACE.

SWEAT-PAD FASVTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,348, dated May 3,1887. V

A Application filed July 22, 1886. Serial No. 208,774. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. ALBRIGHT, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, Des Moinescounty, Iowa, have invented anew and useful Improvementin Sweat- 'PadFasteners, of which the following is a specification.

' ject of my invention is to furnish a sweat-pad fastener which shall besimple and durable. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents across-sectionof sweatpad, collar, and hames. Fig. II represents sweatpad fastener.

In my drawings, A represents a collar pad. B represents the collar, and0 represents the harnes. b is the depression at the juncture of the foreroll with the body of the collar.

E represents a flexible strip, made of leather or any other suitablematerial, and it is fastened at one end in the collar or sweat-pad A.

To the other end of strip E is riveted or other-' wise fastened a pieceof metal, F, so as to run counter to strip E, as illustrated in Fig. IIof the drawings.

The operation of my invention is as follows: First, the sweat pad is putaround the animals neck. Now I bend the flexible strip around the foreroll of the collar, and it is just long enough to 5 fastener consistingof two parts only-viz., a 5

flexible portion, E, adapted to be seen red to the pad at one end and tobe bent around the fore roll of a horse-collar,'and a rigid portion, F,secured to the flexible portion E at its other end, so that it-will lieflat thereon, the said 0 rigid portion F adapted to be pressed againstthe collar, and the hame to be placed in position, as shown, so that theportion F will bear against the said halne, substantially as described.

' JOHN \V. ALBl HGHT.

Witnesses:

O. MARBLE, L. O. STEVENS.

Then the collar is put over the pad.

This makes a secure sweat- 4o

